THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh, another group marches in heroic lockstep.
This is especially deflating because we expect scientists to be open-minded, and people who can lock up their brains in one area are apt to throw away the key in others.
P. S. at 9:24 p. m. I work in a facility with scientists and find this kind of ideological rigor mortis hard to believe. But there may be a reason for this survey's slant: Eighty percent of the surveyed scientists work in academe, governmment and non-profits, and half work in medicine. Only fifteen percent work in the private sector. NUF SAID.
P. P. S. In Sweden:
Confidence In Scientists On The Decline
Professors Sören Holmberg and Lennart Weibull of the SOM Institute believe that the financial crisis may have contributed to the decline in confidence.
“A lot of attention has been focused on how poorly experts and researchers have understood the situation, and on their inability to predict what happened.”
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